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Our Health

Meat and dairy products are laden with saturated fats, cholesterol, hormones, pathogens, antibiotics, and excess protein. They lack complex carbohydrates and fiber, as well as many vitamins and minerals, all essential to our health. Your diet may be killing you.

Over the past four decades, dozens of massive studies found that consumption of animal products is associated with elevated risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and certain forms of cancer, which kill 1.4 million Americans annually. None reached the opposite conclusion.

Pathogens like E. coli and Salmonella, responsible for many food recalls, all originate with animals raised for food.

All major viral epidemics, including Ebola, and the Spanish, Asian, Avian, Coronavirus, and Swine Flu, have originated from virus mutations associated with our exploitation of animals.

And the Planet

For more about how your diet impacts the planet, visit greenyourplate.org.

What is a Vegan Lifestyle?

A vegan lifestyle seeks to exclude all animal exploitation from one’s life, including but not limited to food, clothing, entertainment, decor and travel. Those of us following a vegan lifestyle seek to minimize harm to animals as much as possible by not eating or using animal flesh or parts, including eggs, dairy, honey, leather, fur, wool, silk, down feathers, and any items tested on animals, such as soaps, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and cleaning products. Furthermore, the vegan lifestyle does not condone any form of entertainment or sport involving the exploitation or killing of animals, such as hunting, fishing, circuses or shows with animal acts, and zoos.